There are several potential causes why scheduled payroll liabilities may show as overdue, or show-up with a red warning ‘past due’ flag (or appear in red in older versions of QuickBooks), in QuickBooks.more

It's not uncommon to find yourself with a Payroll Schedule 'in the red'; and the fix is just as easy, if you can simply remember where to look. The recent QuickBooks version has slightly relocated the fix.more